The Biggest Lie Ever Told

There is a part of you that is very vulnerable. It will believe anything anyone tells you

I remember as a kid playing a game once with some other boys my age. We only played this game one time and never played it again. I must have been around seven, at the most, and the other boys the same age, give or take a year or two. The game was simply each one of us taking turns jumping atop the wide flat concrete banister of my friends’ porch, and once up there standing above the crowd of boys watching from the floor below, flex our muscles, bellow in our deepest voice and proclaim to be Superman, Batman, Spiderman or whatever superhero we could think of that was bigger and badder than the one previously mentioned. ‘I’m Batman, one would say, ‘he’s got the bat mobile and the bat cave and he can fight.’ And then that one would jump down off the banister onto the floor while another would jump up and assert, I’m the Green Hornet, him and Kato both can fight and he’s got the Black Beauty.” Well, I’m Superman, would say another, he is really strong and he doesn’t need a car to drive because he can fly and he’s made of steel not even a bullet can kill him. And then that one would jump down and another would eagerly take his place trying to top and outdo the other with the strongest, fastest, most powerful super hero. Finally, after having had a couple of turns, running out of heroes, perhaps sensing a never ending debate and not to be outdone, I got up flexed my muscles and declared with as much conviction and the most thunderous voice I could muster, ‘I’m God!. Cain’t Nobody Beat God!’ And with that there was silence. Nobody else jumped back up on the banister to proclaim another hero. The game was over.

Throughout traditional folklore the serpent is said to mesmerize its prey. In the allegory of the Garden of Eden, ‘…the serpent proved to be the most cunning of the wild beasts that God had made. So it began to say to the woman: ‘is it really so that God said you must not eat from every tree from the garden?” The serpent approached Eve with a subtle question that she hadn’t considered, catching her with her guard down. Now under the serpents spell, she repeats by rote what she’d been told by her husband. “Of the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat from it, no, You must not touch it that you do not die.'” The serpent saw his opening and pounced. “You positively will not die. For God knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like God knowing good and bad.” The question was raised and doubt ensued. Maybe Adam was lying, maybe he got it all wrong and God never said such things, Eve might have thought. Besides, God never said these things directly to her. Maybe God was lying and holding something back. “Consequently the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was something to be longed for to the eyes, yes, the tree was desirable to look upon. So she began taking of its fruit and eating it. Afterward she gave some also to her husband when with her and he began eating it.” (Genesis 3: 1-6 ) .

Allegory

The world, and all things that can be perceived with our sense of sight, are impressions, interpretations of things that exist in another dimension unseen to the human eye. Although invisible, these things exist nonetheless. They exist in the realm of spirit. The same spirit that is the cause of all things we perceive, that allows us to breathe without thinking and the sun to rise and set without fail. All the great truths, therefore, have been given to us in the forms of myth and symbols because they create pictures inside our minds to help us understand universal truths and the laws of spirit that comprise both our makeup and that of the universe itself.. These truths come from another dimension or higher realm of intelligence and can only be understood by the human mind in a simplified form. That which is finally comprehended still cannot be articulated sufficiently in words but can only be intimated, alluded to, by man. Many of the stories in the bible therefore, cannot always be interpreted literally. Much of what is written therein is allegory, metaphors for spiritual truth.

Interpretation

The Garden of Eden represents mans unified original state of perfection, wholeness and oneness with God, nature and the universe. God, man and the universe are one and the same. Everything is God and all things originate from God. Man walks with his God and has a clear connecting link. There is no separation.

The serpent represents the world, magnetic, mesmerizing and appearing to be something it is not. In this case, what appears to be a serpent is actually the angel, Satan, the unseen cause or spirit behind the illusion. So too with the world of form, captivating and powerfully hypnotic, it is an illusion appearing to be something it is not, namely, the cause of and the answer to life’s problems, just as were the suggestions given to Eve by the serpent.

The man and woman represent, not two distinct persons, but the two of three sides of man, particularly, the conscious and subconscious minds of the individual; Adam, representing the male aspect of the individual in the form of the active, conscious ego and Eve representing the passive, more receptive subconscious mind. When we refer to Eve as having been caught with her guard down we imply that the man, who was her guard, was not present or awake, in other words, the critical, reasoning and discriminating faculties of the ego had been bypassed and uncertainty was planted below her conscious (ego) level of awareness into the subconscious mind. Eve was seduced into a trance-like state of mind and hypnotized to believe something that wasn’t true. She was hypnotized into believing a lie. The lie being that there was something wrong in paradise, something wrong with her as she was. She was na